Lancers

It has been a thrilling post season for the Lady Lancers. We entered district play with one of our best players, G Rachel Bode, injured. She suffered a severe finger sprain two days before our opening game against Tampa Bay Christian Academy. We had high hopes for this season as we were able to host the district tournament this year.

In the first round we found ourselves out of sync and down by ten at half-time to TBCA. Rachel checked in at half-time despite the pain in her finger and thanks to some better shooting and impressive defense we came back and won the game 32-26.

In the District Championship we faced Seffner Christian, a team that had beaten us badly twice during the season. We took a lead in the first quarter 10-6 with Rachel scoring all 10 of our first quarter points. But it wasn't to last. After going 0-6 from the free-throw line in the first half we went to half-time tied 14-14.

In the third quarter Seffner started out strong out scoring us by 5 in the quarter and taking a 27-22 lead into the fourth quarter. As I sat there on the bench I could feel the game start to slip away. But as the fourth quarter opened I could see that our girls were determined to not let the game get out of reach. We outscored Seffner 14-2 in the fourth quarter and made some clutch free-throws down the stretch to finish out the game. The end result was a Lancers victory 36-29 and a District Championship for Cambridge Christian. Despite the injured finger on her shooting hand Rachel finished the game with 23 points on 7-12 shooting from the field and 7-9 from the free throw line.

It was a great night.

Next up, Regional Quarter Finals at home Thursday night vs. Walker Memorial.